By Moe Bedard on Jul 4, 2009 in Scams | 0 Comments
Everyone’s seen them—seductive work-at-home opportunities hyped in flyers tacked to telephone poles, in newspaper classifieds, in your e-mail, and all over the web, promising you hundreds or thousands of dollars a week for typing, stuffing envelopes, processing medical billing, etc. And it’s just a phone call or mouse click away…
Might be tempting during these uncertain [...]
By Moe Bedard on Jun 16, 2009 in Scams | 0 Comments
Ross Howard from the Better Business Bureau shows me a check that a consumer recently brought in. It’s for about $1,900 and looks real to me. Then he rips it in half. The paper makes almost a screechy sound as it rips apart. Howard relates that to the sound some people make when he rips [...]
By Moe Bedard on Jun 16, 2009 in Scams | 0 Comments
Hello fellow wage slave! Yeah, I’m talking to you. What, you don’t think that you are? Well, buddy, I have got news for you. You and I continue to particpate in the largest ponzi scheme in the world’s history. But hey, who the heck am I?
Well, I’m real person just like you who now “gets [...]